2023-01-23 15:16 UTC

Featured ADS-B Feeder for January 2023: Rafael Gimenez (PGANRB500220)

Rafael Gimenez Silva, ADS-B Feeder in Dracena, Brazil

The first featured feeder of the year goes to Rafael Gimenez Silva, who has been feeding AirNav from Dracena, Sao Paulo, Southeast Brazil, since 2017.

Rafael is an aviation enthusiast and has been passionate about everything aviation since he was a child. We have a picture of Rafael on a Cessna 155 in the mid-1990s.

Photo courtesy of Rafael Gimenez Silva

"Since I was a child, I have been passionate about aviation. And I always wondered which planes were passing over my region, and this dream came true when I came across ADS-B technology on Google. I found RadarBox that helped me to see and track flights passing over my city, and I was impressed with how easy it was to use the App site and how complete the platform was.", he said.

Rafael Gimenez Silva with AirNav RadarBox T-Shirt

His ADS-B antenna is installed 7 meters above the ground and has a range of 204 nautical miles (377 km), covering part of the State of São Paulo, Brazil's financial center.

PGANRB500220 ADS-B Station located in Dracena, São Paulo, Brazil

His station is in the 85th best ADS-B stations in Brazil and 21st in the ranking of São Paulo.

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Dracena

Dracena is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 45,847 (2015 est.) in an area of 488 km². The elevation is 421 m. The municipality contains part of the 7,720 hectares (19,100 acres) of Rio do Peixe State Park, created in 2002.